Your Head Might Be On Sideways
In your brain the right side controls the left half of your body and vice versa. We still aren't sure why this is, but some scientists have come up with a pretty bizarre explanation: that some ancient vertebrate ancestor was born with its brain on backwards. Or, at least on sideways. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VAxGJdJeQ https://brill.com/view/journals/ab/62/2/article-p193_7.xml https://peerj.com/articles/7096/ https://uni-muenster.sciebo.de/s/gRWiOLR9IAzAaAT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15664541 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fe2d/36ddc63af9f26aa22ec1bbce115f7aa35387.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406925/ http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000-07-03.html http://pom.bbaw.de/cmg/cmgi41u.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31473669 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn1011 https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fneu0000163 https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ar.20731 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23931149 https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-biology2/chapter/diversity-of-nervous-systems/ https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(13)01178-1 https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/114123 https://www.embl.de/digitalembryo/fish.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9XuJJXylw ------- Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-colors-of-my-personality-gm1163999285-319809415 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-brain-illustration-with-left-and-right-function-concept-gm1131701233-299744189 https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jksdjxxc https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haikouichthys_3d.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CajalChiasmTheory.png https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/8591484615/ https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/nervous-system-gm155276185-18719294 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/dna-helix-in-close-up-htvthnpgzjbex8llw https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/zebrafish-embryo-gm481111306-69155535 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/baby-girl-smiling-gm535971531-57687522 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/2mova-beautiful-elderly-couple-giving-a-kiss-full-of-love-under-a-shower-of-confetti-in-slow-motion-hdglxyoginc0cx01 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/active-retired-old-men-and-leisure-two-senior-black-brothers-talking-and-hugging-in-park-sequence-xt7sbbq https://www.videoblocks.com/video/little-curly-boy-coming-to-mothers-opened-embrace-ru8q2mmnlj0ogmod1 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/photo-manipulation-head-face-backwards-gm621922404-108760857
